Here's Why China Is Killing The Global Recycling Industry

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[@xlyoutube]

When your hands are always clean, it only means that someone else is doing all your dirty works for you.

[@megsinzoa7424]

This is wisdom that should have been censored by the AI. ( ALERT ALERT ALERT, censor asap.)

[@imluvinyourmum]

Is that a legit Chinese saying?

[@megsinzoa7424]

@@imluvinyourmum NO THIS IS NOT CHINA, WE LOVE BEING DIRTTYY SO YOU STAY CLEAN AND PAY US MONEY !! MODERN SLAVERY PAID FOR MY 43 INCH FLAT SCREEN TV I LOVE BEING A SLAVE !

[@xlyoutube]

@@imluvinyourmum I'm Chinese and I said that... so yeah I guess it is a legit Chinese saying. :)

[@greedyfirstalgorithmlast26]

Poorly Made in China?

[@poodlescone9700]

West: Give workers better working conditions! Also West: What do you mean you will stop sorting our garbage with cheap labor!?

[@lakshmiamruthayechurib3811]

yes truly

[@WahyuSetiawan-sz4lc]

Better working condition. . . Amazon : allow me to introduce myself

[@rosiepestel7836]

😂😂😂😂

[@gyorgymatenagy3898]

not just waste: - Most cheap clothes and shoes are made in sweatshops - Electronics are so accessable because the parts are made in low-wage factories with poor safety regulations for your health - Plantations employ underpayed workers for dirt poor wages so they can sell banana cheaper than apples We have to face the truth: If we want to archive equality, we must sacrafice many things we take for granted

[@stephenlock7236]

That's the real hypocritical West that you are dealing with.

[@jksharma555]

Nothing wrong in China stopping import of waste when it has it's own enough waste.

[@worldnews4347]

tru, but americans need to blame them so maybe they (china) consider forget about all money whitch usa own to china right now :)

[@danielandersson4651]

The materials where also of such poor quality it couldent be recycled

[@davidburke2697]

@@worldnews4347 US owes 7 trillion to China and this amount grows like malignant cancer

[@krishsingharora5148]

Same step should be taken by our country India. India may become a dustbin for the developed countries if we don't ban on importing waste. We have a large population which generates tonnes of waste everyday and out of that only 10 - 30% gets recycled or disposed off rest lands up in landfills or dumped here and there because of which India has become the most polluted country in the world.

[@joshs3499]

True, also nothing wrong with not buying stuff from China. Buy local.

[@brianzhou326]

The title is pretty misleading

[@Thisisahandle701]

So is state controlled media. But you don't seem to mind that.

[@Thisisahandle701]

@Ecological Warrior You are *lying*. American media is famously not controlled by the government.

[@Thisisahandle701]

@Ecological Warrior Name your favourite source in China.

[@readingRoom100]

No, it's leading exactly the way it was intended to lead. In this sense, the title was spot on lol.

[@readingRoom100]

@@Thisisahandle701 Uh, the revolving door between the "independent" press and the american government renders your defense limp

[@Floatian]

Reporters (10 years ago): China is the most polluted country in the world. Reporters (now): China refuses to take more trashes!

[@Thisisahandle701]

Reporter (right now): China plans to build hundreds of new Coal power plants until the year 2035, jeopardising the climate for generations to come. Furthermore, China refuses to allow basic voting right to its citizens.

[@Floatian]

@@Thisisahandle701 CO2 emissions per capita (wiki, in 2014) Qatar (highest): 45.4 US: 16.5 Australia: 15.4 China: 7.5 and made in China products serve all over the world, but all emissions of productions are calculated onto every Chinese. If we are talking about the same thing, I wouldn't be so stupid not to assume Qatar or US or Australia etcs are not the bigger jeopardizes to the climate for generations to come!!!!!!! If you don't know, never say it, in China citizens have voting rights for representatives, representatives then vote for the government. The last but not the least, I'm here talking about pollutions and critics on refusing trashes. WHAT ON EARTH IS YOUR POINT MENTIONING VOTING RIGHTS?

[@Thisisahandle701]

​@Ecological Warrior I think it's fantastic you are proud of your country's achievements. But I think it takes responsibility to acknowledge your country's shortfalls as well. You accuse me of propaganda, but the only available media in China is propaganda. This is useful if you are an autocrat, because you can tell your people what you decide they should hear which is not always the same as the truth. I don't like to be treated like a child, which is why western beliefs surrounding the primacy of the 'individual' are so important for me. Freedom to decide your own fate, and to criticise what you determine to be wrong, is something I take very seriously. I'm not interested in lying for the 'greater good' because this creates delusion. I believe that motivations for serving the CCP are limited to career advancement and lack of choice. The result, is a machine designed to continue in perpetuity with an endless supply of new enforcers.

[@Thisisahandle701]

@@Floatian 2015 total carbon dioxide emissions from fuel combustion (million metric tons): China: 9040.74 US: 4997.50 I understand that US per capita result is higher than China. Which is why it is good that the US is moving to renewable energies and nuclear. But China is building more coal plants when it is already the single greatest contributor to Co2 levels.

[@Thisisahandle701]

@Ecological Warrior Germany also systematically murdered 6 million Jews and disabled people as well as starting a war which caused hundreds of millions to lose their lives, having only just started another war which also killed millions. Germany had a dictator at the time.

[@jimglass5892]

I was chairman of a national recycling association for several years from 2009 on. I have also built and run one of the state of the art optical sorting MRF plants. China allowed recycling to explode world wide, however recyclers recognised the Chinese would someday close their doors. Despite lobbying our councils and government 10 years ago to develop industries that can process the collected packaging we were ignored. Ideallists demanded 100% recycling efficiency from such systems, blocking progress even if 95% was achieved. Misguided people who treat their environmental views as a belief structure, like a religion, continuously disbelieve hard factual evidence because it does not suit the narrative. As a result, world wide, progress is roadblocked by well intentioned passionate people who want perfection rather than, what can be done right now.

[@kevinsuriano9663]

So true. There are so many missed opportunities in the USA. There is both a bottoms up and top down problem.

[@EA-History]

I absolutely agree with you! The challenges in many western countries is that recycling, enviromental and climate politics are more like a religion than common sense about what is realistic to achieve.

[@dnnsv7]

Please continue your good work. Its inspiring. The wrong beliefs will change one day. Keep going.

[@robertvandermolen230]

Yeah I ran a recycling operation in the Chicago area and so much of what people put in the recycling was really garbage. You can’t recycle styrofoam with leftover food in it.

[@nomadicheathen6054]

If I cant have the whole loaf of bread, I dont want the half loaf. That kind of mentality is frustrating! Thank you for your comment. Any suggestions on what one can do to help solve this problem?

[@blueskies2117]

I paid this unemployed guy to clean my house every week. The house had asbestos, but he cleaned it and got sick anyway because he needed the money. One week, he got a decent desk job and said he didn't want to clean my house anymore. Why is he ruining the cleanliness of my house?

[@omodiagbedominicedeoghon4607]

@ Me, too.

[@bornagain9192]

China paid for this vidio.

[@柏霖陳-f5t]

This video is a clear western propaganda against China, US controls all informations on youtube. Divide and conquer is US strategy. 20% truth 80 lies.

[@ethandee1238]

@@柏霖陳-f5t "The US controls all information on youtube?" Actually, KZbin has been increasingly pro-CCP. And don't accuse the US of controlling information on KZbin when China controls basically all information in China.

[@markcasila8310]

​@@柏霖陳-f5t CCP troll spoted ... here is your 50 cents ... go and buy your bat soup

[@Perifroog]

*Canada introduces initiatives to reduce waste* Also Canada: Tries to dump waste in Phillipines but is forced to accept it back

[@eavyeavy2864]

Henati pls

[@64jsanchez]

Canada land of mafia and criminals

[@silversurfergw]

Only a symbolic amount was shipped back to Canada.

[@reonsakurai6834]

Someone in the Bureau of Customs probably received kickbacks from that though.

[@asmodeusasteroth7137]

Yup Canada is BS Filipino people are tired of these people

[@luisgamez9941]

Why is it up to the consumer to be the responsible ones to recycle? I say it's also on the companies that profit from selling products that can be recycled. These companies should fork up some capital to find solutions to the waste problem.

[@bachngo3456]

Wait so isn’t China making the world better because now the world have to think of solutions like what Canada or Vietnam did Edit: Ok after a few weeks and checking back in and HOW I GOT 500 LIKES AND LIKE SO MANY COMMENTS, REEEEE.

[@meltup3668]

BlackWolfUS That’s what he’s implying. The title’s purpose was just to grab your attention and get you to watch the entire thing.

[@s0nnyburnett]

China, making the world better. Do you know how many corners they cut to speed up their industrial revolution to catch up to the rest of the world.

[@zblurth]

@@s0nnyburnett He was talking about how china make the other country change not china itself

[@roisingtommy]

they snort rhino horns

[@moonlightstripess]

But then we can think about it the other way if they hadnt created such a big demand for recyclables other countries and companies would have found more incentives not creating these trash.

[@humblesoldier5474]

China: No thank you we don't want your recycling anymore The world: Surprised, and freaking out Pikachu.

[@ShimizuAkari]

Humble Soldier xD nice one earth chan

[@fluffymozarella3776]

why there are many chinese mainlanders lurking around youtube now? Not to be rude, but it's for emotional safety reason. The media potraits China as a heinous thing😂

[@imluvinyourmum]

When we pay for something and it isn't done as agreed and contracted, yes it's Pikachu thunderjolt time. We didn't do u like the Canadians and send bio-waste, we had a good trading partnership, China's moved away from recycling so it goes to other trading partnerships that want it at our tax rates. Settle down and be a man for once, business isn't emotional games.

[@风萧萧兮易水寒-v2l]

west country is not the world

[@mimigingercat1236]

yeah

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[@lilianberry6103]

@@maxwellwilliams3644 wow!! That's like my 2 years worth of salary

[@ioan_jivan]

Wow. This video is 2 years late, with a misleading title and from a pretty weird perspective. You don't have to read a lot to reach the idea that the Chinese people were indeed suffering from this thrash trade, and now many citizens of other countries will suffer if it is not implemented properly (a very difficult thing to do). I really expected more from this channel, but it seems like every video that involves China comes from a limited, maybe too American perspective.

[@zackhype]

More like 4 years late

[@meghanachauhan9380]

Sounds like too much flourine in murikan waters and too much brainwash in murikan media

[@hongsienkwee537]

@Buro Dackel Chinese didn't blame you, where do you read that? They just don't want to do it anymore, but what is troublesome is that now other non-recyclable waste ARE exported under the guise of recyclable waste to SE-Asia, among others to Malaysia that is now returning almost 1000 containers to the US and Europe

[@colinmahoney7734]

@Klippy Klop Moron Personified!

[@WATCHINGTHEWATCHERS]

Recent TV docs from the BBC and other networks published this year have made recycaling a trending topic.

[@anitahsiao4505]

7/26/19 I beg your pardon ! China did not kill “Global Recycling “ ! In fact, China has most strict rules on recycling own waste. In order to improve China’s environment, China must stop accepting waste from other countries ! I am sure that every country has the ability and responsibility to process his own waste !

[@andersonmichaelbarryc7909]

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[@lightningbolt4419]

I hate people like you

[@lisashung9442]

@@lightningbolt4419 must be something wrong with you……see psychiatrist to get help……

[@lisashung9442]

UK is one of the worst western countries in terms of recycling! All the recycling trashes are all mixed up in one bag. The country has never actually recycled anything themselves but export the mixed trashes to the developing countries …….even secretly hide the rubbishes inside……

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[@paris466]

Years ago, In order to persuade consumers to accept plastic instead of paper bags (and soothe the minds of the environmentally conscience), we were told "It's OK. They're *biodegradable*". Maybe we should hold whoever sold that line of horseshit accountable.

[@LAactor]

How many years ago was that exactly

[@paris466]

@@LAactor Oh God... this was like back in the 80s or 90s. (Long time ago) I remember a few news programs covering it and how great it was going to be for the environment. It was the angle they used to get people to adopt it. Excellent idea and totally agree with it (ya know, save a tree and all)... had that been the case.

[@aarone8740]

I still use the cloth reusable bags!

[@saptarshipal6743]

@@aarone8740 such bags were used here in India from ancient times. Infact we became largest manufacturers and users and then 90's came and economy was opened and rest is history.

[@davidjames666]

back in the ‘80’s Mcdonalds Boasted that that they are switching to styrofoam clamshells to hold their burgers. They took out tv spots where they boasted it would save millions of trees a year. a few years ago, they had a spot on tv where to save the environment, they are going to use cardboard for the burgers

[@stankygeorge]

Until I was a teenager, we had paper straws, returnable bottles (for every liquid)! There was little fast food, people ate their meals either at home or in restaurants. We can easily go back to those practices and eliminate eighty percent of our waste! Oh yeah, we drank water from the faucet!

[@tommak6516]

the good old days, when you took a couple of 3 gallon buckets to the corner bar and had them filled up with beer to take home.

[@robertswenson6009]

Yep I was there too

[@justtubingby129]

We used "straws". Straw grows in soil. Non polluting. No need to recycle. Organic.

[@ArtStoneUS]

And women scrubbed clothes on a washing board and spent most of their day shopping for and preparing food

[@sallylemon5835]

Speaking of fast food, we could make a different. I walked in KFC for my takeaways, with tupperware carried by my fancy reusable paper bags and requested the staff to pack my order in it. All restaurants I go highly supports this practice, in fact makes their day when they pack something in different looking container and fancy bags. Either you restart it or nobody would.

[@eslante]

it's kinda funny how big countries shaking each other's hand while also pointing gun to each other

[@marksmith6104]

That’s politics

[@eslante]

politics with money dlc

[@oshguru]

If you produce the garbage you deal with it yourself. Don’t pass your dirty work to someone else.

[@gorkyd7912]

The garbage was produced in China, hence the millions of empty shipping containers that came from China and were unloaded in California. Stop buying Chinese garbage products and we won't have to ship back so much recycling.

[@gorkyd7912]

@Ecological Warrior Do farmers ban my shit from going back into the ground?

[@luisgui6832]

@raymond daubney Good, you can save that money for yourself now!

[@boku1143]

So everyone is doing a china video today

[@PinkFloydBootlegs]

Because their country is garbage. Not recycle.

[@deltabeta5527]

Hey, you are right

[@littlemoutha9998]

They senting it back, so is philipine... back to west , mostly garbage non recyclable

[@我自閉了]

Cigar nmlgb

[@al8731]

Cos they gonna take over the universe.

[@heyojayo8642]

So nice of you to conveniently omit footage of the disgusting, dirty, polluting and sometimes illegal MRF's set up in Malaysia, Thailand and other dumping grounds in lesser developed countries like Guatemala, India etc.

[@christophertolhurst4918]

I love you. STOP blaming China for the lack of proper recycling around the world. The USA began recycling back in the mid 70's, the USA (did NOT) build and promote our recycling effort because it would be good for people. Instead the USA put China as a recycling market AS AN EXCUSE FOR NOT DOING IT OURSELVES. Peace

[@cmdr1911]

Having consulted for landfills constriction and lechate/gas management, it ends up in the landfill. Landfills are extremely well engineered today, but recycling doesn't profit enough. The cost to place it in the fill area is low thus it ends up in the landfill. I don't even use my recycling cans. I have seen where my trash goes and seen the recycling trucks dump into the landfill I was working at.

[@eric4681702]

Where was this? My guess it that it differs per region and country.

[@cmdr1911]

@@eric4681702 The mid west from Michigan, Ohio and PA at majors like Waste Management and Republic with some regional companies.

[@anhkhoanguyen8562]

it's easy to do landfill in a place with low population density, like in the US. It won't be easy to do so in Europe, Japan or many other countries, with serious lack of living spaces.

[@cmdr1911]

@@anhkhoanguyen8562 Many landfills in the US are unreclaimed strip mines. Some are actually used as a Reclaimation plan to rebuild the tops of mountains or turned in ski slopes in flat area. Their lives are long too, 1 I worked on opened in the 40's and the client has 125 years of capacity left at current rates not including reduction from recycling and break down of organics. With everything built, it is cheap

[@lylvls]

Same in Australia.

[@choisamwon2344]

Recycling is big business and hope all western countries import waste products and rubbish from developing countries !

[@emmanuelufot4947]

What kind of a click bait is this? We blame China for massive pollution and they stop collecting waste we complain 🤦‍♂️

[@michaelyu3678]

Its because usa is importing trash to china to make new goods

[@michaelyu3678]

The west should build their own recycle center

[@teothegreat3587]

If you don’t buy we don’t send it .. did u hear some in other country is buying it and now millionaire .. it is a service and you get paid .. someone will always have recycle it is good business

[@lovetheguyisbigloos5062]

China stop buy recycled

[@jutea9858]

Because this is a promise that China needs to fulfill when it joins the WTO as a poor country...but China is no longer a poor country without a doubt.

[@jaridkeen123]

The Recycling companies should be sued in America, i pay you monthly to property dispose of my Trash and Recycling. They have not been following up to there end of the bargain. They are just stealing our money.

[@bobyoung1698]

China's shift away from imported recyclables was swift and far-reaching, but as others here have noted, it was not the result of political competition so much as an immediate reflection of that nation's economic evolution. They now generate enough recyclables to supply themselves.

[@laxmikantbarik4353]

YOUR TRANSITION TO AUDIBLE WAS PRETTY SLEEK.

[@crab7405]

LAXMIKANT BARIK It was a commercial for Audible all along!

[@HectorLopez15]

Always

[@womanofsubstance8735]

When the list of acceptable recyclables was so severely curtailed in 2017 I was surprised that the US wasn't doing our own recycling, or very little of it. Why? This would provide jobs here where they are so sorely needed. Maybe this is what it takes to wake us up.

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

Make jobs for American workers when it can be exported for cheap to developing countries! PFFFFFFT! What kinda crazy talk is this!/s

[@kelvin4833]

I mean right now there’s a labor shortage in the US. More jobs than there are people willing to do them

[@thaddadeodead]

If you recycled at American wages you would lose money. It was literally more profitable to ship it over the ocean to China than to recycle it here.

[@womanofsubstance8735]

@@thaddadeodead True, immediate profit for the manufacturers. But what happened? China now as cubic miles of compacted, NOT-recycled stuff they got from us, which means they now have the "natural resources" for future recycling, while we have nothing. They will also have jobs for people to do that. Wouldn't more jobs here in the US mean that more people could afford to pay a slightly higher price for products? What happens when we need the metals stored there? We will have to create more holes in the Earth, with more energy output, while they will process already-mined and smelted minerals. But immediate profit for the manufacturers was/is more important, I guess.

[@sheli4239]

Union recyclable sorters......no profit there, you'll lose money.

[@matrixRule127]

The video was really good, but the plug was even better! Smooth!!😂

[@zihe6107]

China is moving on. Western countries are arguing, complaining and buck-passing.

[@ZacharyRodriguez]

Pretty sure he mentioned Western countries taking steps to resolve the issue. Did you actually watch the video?

[@zihe6107]

@@ZacharyRodriguez Talk too much, then actual action steps are ......😓

[@canadiancrafter5100]

@@ZacharyRodriguez theyre really beating around the bush. I'm disappointed at my government for banning straws when there are far worse things out there. It's nice but not enough.

[@Thisisahandle701]

China doesn't even have a free press. Settle down.

[@canadiancrafter5100]

@Ecological Warrior The thing is, denocracy is good but only effective if everyone is edicated enough to vote what they would actually want. Because of a lack of interest in voting to some, politicians do nothing, while making a big deal of it. Action against climate change is often not the best for the economy (which looks bad on the PM), so its next guy's problem.

[@leonalumbad7656]

I love China from Philippines 🤗

[@andersonmichaelbarryc7909]

Lei Usami do you wish to work in China and start a living

[@Thisisahandle701]

*I love china from china, is probably what you meant.

[@JelleecabuyaonVA]

same

[@utorrent01]

@6:35 wow that was a smooth transition into a sponsored by Audible 😂

[@bilalaliahmed8859]

Misleading title, China did the right thing. We need to solve issues ourselves, maybe spend less on military. Especially the US, this is a major issue being downplayed.

[@AndrewManook]

The US probably doesn't even have the funds to build this shit

[@mayurmitra6188]

In agreement with you brother.

[@stsk7]

The military is still a large part of the economy

[@clvrswine]

OK "Ahmed".

[@tanetkato]

Some assertions in this video apply to plastics but not necessarily to papers. The price of recycle pulp has not significantly decreased since its peak in 2017-2018. Recycling of papers is also simpler than plastics, and so such tragic stories from plastic waste don’t occur as much with paper waste.... in fact I can’t recall one at the moment

[@neobr1ck]

Also China ended paper-waste importing much earlier than they do it on plastic. And paper industry is proved to be able to withstand the pressure.

[@yl128pang3]

Wrong Title Correct Title is - Why Western Countries are not Recycling their own plastic waste?

[@Ghstface1222]

"To care for their own country first, improving their environment and public perception". USA needs to catch up 🤔

[@kirkford8972]

True very true, so what's so bad about communism? I've always believed that being free to be garbage isnt such a great claim to freedom... For instance the dirtiest things about the USA are the same things that the people are so afraid to loose.

[@gordonconlogue5686]

Tomahawk heading to your house

[@YouCCP2]

Why Should China need to do the dirty job of recycling Western waste?

[@icemike1]

Logic is astounding

[@Aaa-ct4xb]

What? Chian is clearing there own sea on fish to catch man ?

[@joliu7692]

Any anti-Chinese or sinophobia titles can attract more viewers and show the audience how double standard are being defined in your stories. 🤔🤔

[@theblackhundreds7124]

Exactly. Same thing they do with Russians because they want to blame their collapse on us.

[@beinanye]

Well... The population is high... so more people care... do some math..

[@BoqPrecision]

Propaganda runs the world sadly

[@marianhernandez6655]

You know this is the country that kills its own people.. i applaud them for the recycling but fuck their government..

[@melusine826]

The capitalistic consumerism and fossil fuel industry are fundamental to creating where we are. And the focus on individual responsibility through guilt inducing ads / carbon footprint was created by the fossil fuel industry too

[@ZephyrsTuneOfficial]

You are the master of transitioning from content to ads! Seemless

[@andrewcarter504]

Seamless correct spelling.

[@raymondo162]

@@andrewcarter504 dik correct spelling

[@obey2dmax]

Awesome segway. 😆bravo 👏

[@niko1even]

@@obey2dmax segue*

[@gslim7337]

Most recently one of Australia's largest recycling firms SKM went into receivership as the result of continuing cycle of penalty notices and site mishaps in which a large percentage of the materials they use to send to China was no longer being accepted. The final straw was Malaysia saying to Australia "Here! have your garbage back!" and issued notices for containers containing recyclable materials to be returned to Australia. SKM's solution was to stockpile the material in a series of rented warehouses while desperately seeking somewhere to send it. In the end it will all be transported to landfill as the only solution. Why not do our own recycling? We gave away our manufacturing and no longer have the capabilities to do so at the scale required. Australia has some of the most expensive electricity in the world. Why not take the plastic waste and use it as fuel for generating electricity? Environmental regulations in Australia as such would never permit this to happen. If you want to see an example of 20 years of policy failure. This is it folks.

[@krishsingharora5148]

I don't understand why developed countries cannot treat its own waste when it has so much of money.

[@harryloo8544]

7.48 minute video but none of it says what the title suggest

[@willowwhisper6575]

Lol supermarket plastic bags should not be single-use, you can use them in your trash cans instead of buying specific bags for trash that only cause more plastic consumption. I've been using cloth bags to do my shopping for a while and just now the government in my country is forbidding the use of plastic bags in any kind of commercial establishment. Baby steps I guess...

[@sanniepstein4835]

Why ban plastic bags if they are reused? I have a small garbage can made to hold shopping bags so every one is repurposed. It's unfortunate that sturdy plastic containers cannot be reused for sanitary reasons.

[@nitink.a567]

Everything starts at home but when you sort out the trash , accordingly & nobody takes it. Even the people, who collect, and send it to recycling centers hardly take plastic containers or glass containers. When it comes to Glass only Beer , bottles are accepted.

[@lylegrenoble2055]

@@nitink.a567 That's kind of when I begin to take the hint that it's all about the money and not so much about the environment. I'm not saying I want to trash the environment but I think we should be able to utilize our own cheap energy options. If it really was about Co2 emissions causing a world climate issue it wouldn't matter if the Co2 was released in China or in the USA or any other country's. They shut down everything for the "plandemic". Next the US will shut down it's people over the climate "plandemic" while china will be at a major advantage because of loss of global manufacturing competition

[@zabnat]

Banning plastic shopping bags from the stores is one of the best examples to make you feel guilty about environment while not helping at all.

[@zabnat]

@ThoughtCrime How does it reduce waste if you switch a bag to another kind? Both are recycled to either energy or more products. And they don't just hand them out, they cost 20 cent a piece, at least here. And then there is this little thing that you would have to use the paper bag 11 times before it is as ecological as the plastic bag (840 times for a fabric bag) and none of the paper bags I've seen handle any proper weight, so you need more of them.

[@dangolfishin]

Here people mostly switched to reusable bags

[@redluck01]

Yes, paper bags biodegrade! You never heard of a giant floating paper bags in the oceans.

[@KorbenDalasCZ]

paper bag has in many respects a worse ecological balance than plastic. And in the Czech Republic, biodegradable PLA plastic is used for bags, it's made from corn and can be composted.

[@redluck01]

@@KorbenDalasCZ Please provide a link to the study that proves this.

[@laxmikantbarik4353]

Didn't knew *GARBAGE* is a 100 billion industry. Your videos makes my brain cells to reproduce.

[@RT804]

Think of it as used material and it changes your perception. It's also easier to not blame the West for dumping its "garbage" on China but instead selling it the used material it needed.

[@awesomises]

Everything could be a billion-dollar industry, most people just don’t see it.

[@Poemi10304]

Time to start a recycling business. 😀

[@marczhu7473]

@@Poemi10304 try to find volunteer for that ungrateful underpaid job and very smelly too.

[@nnamdinwadialo8118]

Lols

[@Irfan-yh4it]

Why do you and Polymatter always upload videos at the same time? Just curious, outstanding content as always :)

[@blee04524]

Theyre brothers

[@tehdorfurist796]

Maybe they study at the same place and get the same news in the same time zone

[@XRP212]

They must communicate and compete with each other

[@MortyMortyMorty]

They are the same person! 🧐

[@armitylekhona585]

@@MortyMortyMorty foreal ?

[@diannenaworensky6698]

Shame on America !!! America should be making and using IT'S OWN recycling products. This could also provide jobs (for people that are willing to work). Saying that if they are receiving a check they should do some sort of job to get that check.

[@benjamins6219]

This title is click-bait >:(

[@meltup3668]

Benjamin S it’s advertising tactics my friend, advertising tactics m

[@kinga6347]

Sadly this has to be done for people to watch

[@dehongli9436]

@@meltup3668 Yea you guys like to click such title. You wont give it a shit if it's"Why China is getting the global recycling industry better".

[@1337Unlucky]

I'm I the one that thinks xi Jing ping is highly underrated?

[@ezioauditore5616]

busy making china better, no time for media and useless interviews

[@iluvataryang8400]

Alex I believe he could become one of the greatest leader of China in the future

[@lazypunk794]

China is still a horrible authoritarian state. Can't speak out against the government. Surveillance with AI everywhere. Hell they have concentration camps for muslims. It's because of this excessive control that he's so efficient.

[@YY-vs9pe]

Goutham and we have a better life standard than you loser and we don’t have terrorism

[@bearcd5313]

@@lazypunk794 The vedio is trying mislead audience that China start to protect envirement triggered by a documentary of 2016. The fact is China starts to protect it envirement by massive investment of renewable energy 20 years ago.

[@jacklyv]

The banana leaf packages are pretty genius

[@victornderu143]

PolyMatter, Wendover, Business Casual. Which other channels have this type of content??

[@hellknightf1]

Cold Fusion

[@joelin6422]

Toms scott

[@tehdorfurist796]

Not exactly because he's more american-focused, but Company Man and the footage is less shiny

[@hardrock342]

Coldfusion is better than all those and best channel in general

[@TheLightningZap]

His is more reading random facts than a comprehensive story such as the others.

[@lkquad10]

We have hemp now. Time to go back to paper.

[@johnmacdonald7562]

I won't bore you with the details but China was a country that for the longest time imported scrap metal, construction debris scrap wood, plaster board, concrete and asphalt that was originally sent to the landfill. Later on paper and plastic were add to the mix. These feed-stocks were cheap for CHINA to important manual labor was cheap so it made sense. Today Chain is a leading manufacturing country that has put into place its own standards... The real problem is many countries like Canada and US prefer to ship the waste to other countries, rather that deal with the issue at home... Rather than say who is to blame let us redirect our efforts to reuse, reclaim, recycle, re purpose these products. How many people would rather scrap their electrical appliances rather than repair? I know the cost makeS it difficult to justify. I inherited an old fridge that was built in the late 40s. It was mid 70s and it chugged on till about 2010 and I finally donated the the item. I could no longer find someone to repair the good old beer fridge. Basically the gaskets around the door were finished, and the ice box was always frosted solid, but the beer was always cold.

[@Mads-hl8xj]

They just discovered recycling in Poland... im so amazed by this government here. *clap clap*.

[@aal-e-ahmadhussain3123]

This video is very odd. It’s extremely informative while at the same time very transparent propaganda. [Sounds like a caricature from childhood history lessons about World War 2]. The video uses selective language to make China sound like the culprit causing the problem, while it frames the western world as the ones “looking for solutions”. I’m a citizen of western society, born and raised in Britain, and we need to take ownership for our consumption, waste and the poor job we’ve done at managing (covering-up) these over the years. At every point we’ve opted for capital and convenience over what’s more correct; Just imagine the carbon footprint of shipping waste to China instead of domestically processing it! The Chinese government has its problems - I take particular exception to the Uighur situation - and I’m sure broader Chinese society has its issues too, maybe opioid addiction, pedophilia or invading foreign lands to “secure interests”, but this video is shameless and irrational in its contempt for China - hallmarks of prejudice, bigotry, discrimination and racism. Not sure whether to give a thumbs up for finally giving some transparency to our “special arrangement” to make our problems disappear, or a thumbs down for the propaganda.

[@kelvin4833]

Don’t really see that big of a bias. It just states it how it is at that point in time. China benefited it’s not like they took our recycled waste out of the goodness of their heart. They received money from the US to process its recycling in addition to the fact that they got free resources that they lacked such as the paper, ofc there’s nothing wrong with them stopping once their economy has developed. But don’t be under the misconception that China did it for free. It’s a win win for both sides at the time, it was just more saying the west wasn’t prepared for China changing its policy

[@kelvin4833]

And ofc it’s going to focus on how it affected the west because this is a western channel. Look at Chinese videos they r way more biased not saying that this is how we should model our ideology by just being better than China because that’s a low bar considering they are a communist dictatorship at the end of the day but it’s important to take into perspective that this is a channel written for western viewers

[@danielc6106]

@@kelvin4833 they aren't really very communist. I agree with the rest of what you said. 😊

[@annali5017]

@@kelvin4833 they paid for the trash! They never received a penny for it!

[@stephenantonicelli7069]

Singapore burns all waste material, which produce electricity. All waste materials can be turned Into useful resources.

[@kavinanil7406]

It's time for the hypocrites to rethink their hypocrisy and reuse, reduce and recycle.

[@GT3Alexx]

In my country they burn the trash. The heat from the production is used to heat buildings.

[@wakakabravo7998]

@Ecological Warrior japan still sending their trash to developing country. not sure about germanic and Scandinavia country.

[@fullcircle4723]

Yes you can't bully China and expect them to take your rubbish.

[@Yutappy99]

What businesses need to do, is allow customers to bring in their own containers and put stuff into their containers and pay only for what they take. Then we won't even need to recycle because recycling itself requires energy and resources. And there's a limit to how many times you can recycle something before it becomes unrecyclable.

[@s0nnyburnett]

Wrong, steel doesn't undergo generational breakdown. Some plastics do, some don't. And consumer confidence will go to zero when everyone is sneezing and putting their booger hooks in the baked bean vat at the grocery store.

[@Yutappy99]

Well, obviously I'm not expecting shops to lay out their food like some sort of buffet, but go watch some videos on 'zero waste shopping' and see how they do it. Some shops are trailing this kind of model like Waitrose in the UK and Foodstuffs in New Zealand. There are even some shops that offer this service in America.

[@blurview6904]

killing? sounds more like a reforming to me.

[@VanquishGlory]

The solution is actually very simple. Instead of transporting individually packaged goods, send them bulk to packaging facilities per city which use either glass or metal containers, the consumer pays a refundable fee for the packaging. When the consumer wants more product he just brings back the packaging, which then gets sent back to the packaging facility. Remember the good old days when milk was delivered to the front door in glass bottles, every time you wanted more milk, you leave the empty bottles outside with money, in the morning like magic, you would have the old bottles gone and with fresh milk delivered.

[@nitipriyasingh1387]

It make more sense to keep seperate bins for paper plastic and other waste. Its our responsibility to take care of our consumed leftovers. I already have seperate bins in the beginning I was giving it to the garbage collector but when I asked him he said he puts everything back together and it will end in landfill. I felt so bad and then I took charge of my own waste and now every month I sell my paper and plastic waste to the recycler. I feel much happier now. 😊

[@MrTidx90]

I Love your channel! A round of applause how you can break down complex stories to the essential components. Plus the After Effects game is strong with you and your team!

[@michaelwang6125]

Love how you switch the topic into a business advertisement so CASUALLY 6:42 ;)

[@tommyodonovan3883]

Here in Red Deer AB Canada the .gov just admitted that they have not been recycling....It goes to landfills.

[@CARSON441]

A similar situation in Ohio where they had collection containers that had compartments to sort the various materials by type,this process was being done for free by the public at dropoff, thus getting the most valuable link in the chain for free. So the waste recycling local authority took what was a salable commodity with value and made it worthless by removing the dividers inside the containers and allowing the materials to commingle rendering them wrthless. The public was still sorting to the properbin labels ,but for no reason. The people that run these programs are dedicated , enthusiastic and hard working but don't seem to have a profit oriented agenda. And profit is what seems to be missing in the whole cycle of recycling .

[@bs-yn7su]

Plot twist:Business Casual and PolyMatter are the same person.

[@Legion849]

No they're not the same person.

[@bs-yn7su]

@@Legion849 r\wooosh

[@kinga6347]

@@bs-yn7su r/ihavereddit

[@stickynorth]

2009: Why is China taking all our jobs? 2019: Why isn't China taking all our jobs and waste?

[@yanliu7975]

When 5 years ago I first came to Canada for study, I felt so surprised that everywhere offers a lot free stuff or paper or some some disposable things，it is convenient for people’s life, amazing clean, that is developed country. And I guess Canada must also have a developed recycling system to handle those, I want to know more might be helpful to figure the garbage and pollution problems in my homeland. Soon I realized what happened to those garbage and where they finally go. also read the news about like whole small town’s people making living on deal with garbage by hands without any protection, children grow up inside garbage kingdom finding garbages as their toys, people hurt by some toxic or corrosive stuff ....... I felt so so so sad, crying and felt guilt about the convenient I enjoyed. This is a thing changed my entire habit and attitude to the rest of my life.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

When this video was published new cutting edge Australian recycling plants had already opened in several locations, with more opened since. These plants can recycle several types of plastic that previously could not be recycled, and the resulting recycled product is the same quality as freshly made plastic.

[@LordZA87]

The audible plug at the end of the video was seamless lol

[@tewodrosnigatu12]

Great video but the title seemingly makes China the bad guy here. Better to entitle it “how the US has slept over its waste for decades”, sth like that.

[@centpushups]

Right now im actively developing a extremely cheap strap that is completely degradable. The material im testing seems to be a favorite of the earthworms and pillbugs in my compost

[@musicboxforeverable]

Take care your own waste.

[@vigneshraajvicky2098]

Indian state ...tamilnadu also implemented ban on single use plastics

[@filmflour]

6:35 "Ootimately" even though new recycling businesses emerge in Sweden and the Netherlands...

[@rrrzz8346]

what a wonderful story, how empathy and compassion changed the world. there is hope after-all.

[@andrewlankford9634]

I remember my mom recycling soda bottles back in the 70's. Nothing new about it.

[@scottgeorge4268]

Yes... there was a time when all drinks (inc milk) were supplied in glass bottles, some were returned to shops for which a small deposit could be obtained. It's cheaper to put in plastic and forget about real 'recycling'.

[@ClemensKatzer]

It depends where you live. As far as I know, here in Finland most of what is collected for recycling, is actually recycled ... _here_. That the US for decades just have shipped almost all their trash to China, and now suddenly China does not want it any more... is the US's own fault.

[@endller8682]

Imagine USA having to handle their own trash without bumping onto other countries

[@Bernacide]

"In the early 2000s, the Western world is just starting to come on board with recycling..." I could most def be wrong on this but I feel like I remember recycling already being pretty widespread by the time the early 2000s came around. If I had to guess off the top of my head, I would've said the recycling push was during the 90s. I also don't remember being blasted by pro-recycling TV ads in the early 2000s. I do vaguely remember recycling ads on TV during the 90s though!

[@saketsagar2156]

Recycling ads and actual recycling infrastructure has nothing in common

[@monamoore5471]

Should everyone clean their butts don't wait for someone to clean your butt 🤷‍♀️

[@andersonmichaelbarryc7909]

Mona Moore hi beautiful woman how are you doing?

[@monamoore5471]

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[@andersonmichaelbarryc7909]

Mona Moore what is the problem why are you not good what's wrong?

[@Maddikera.Purohit]

If u r bad, v can b ur dad baby. BTW, do u get cleansed so??!.. sry to rest ppl. Not all are eligible to respect.

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Be recyclable for China. Your economy is greater with recycling as this option.

[@OnePermutation]

6:28 Sweden also burns waste for energy. That's what the United States should do...at the very least for what can't be recycled.

[@Mayangone]

We looked at processing plastics with fuels about 20 years ago, but the collection costs were very high in the US. Tipping fees per ton in waste dumps were 1/4 the price of collecting cost.

[@Automedon2]

When waste burning was proposed in my area, the eco warriors had it shot down

[@honantong]

Business Casual killed fair reporting

[@cosmos6107]

China: Don't bring trash into my home This reporter: That is illegal

[@adamo3561]

The town I’m living in now no longer recycled. It’s too expensive and soon the whole region will stop

[@冬-01]

Dear the West, We are not your landfills Sincerely, ASEAN and China

[@clvrswine]

Yes, you clearly are.

[@jasonuk6381]

the truth of Recycling is use these bottles to make cloth and socks, when you wear these socks ,you feet smell stinking.

[@EdwinaTS]

The world must move away from consumption economics and back to how it used to be. Products used to be durable and repairable, and parts can be shared across different products, but consumption economics would bankrupt companies which make durable repairable products. So what is an economics system supposed to do in the modern world? I would say, to provide a worthwhile & high quality living standard for its population. Would that not discourage massive accumulation of wealth and cause the world immense poverty because of a lack of motivation to be industrious? Well, no, because people chase other things when they don't need to chase immense wealth.

[@darnit1944]

So, a less advanced technology? Just so you know, engineering for creating a simple product is a very time consuming and difficult process. Especially if the product is inherently complex

[@BlueeyesChineseguy]

So a documentary single-handedly triggered such drastic change? Were they not any other factors at play?

[@SpikeRosered]

A documentary is the reason that congress is currently asking the pentagon if they used weaponized ticks.

[@Jgvcfguy]

China was most likely gonna stop importing trash gradually but the documentary just sped up the process.

[@ArtStoneUS]

The only material which has obvious value for recycling is aluminum, but people collected cans (even without deposits) long before all the government rules and agencies forced it

[@fredheaven3730]

When i was growing up, we never even had a garbage compant pick up our garbage, it all went into a burning barrel, and presto it was gone, and it was free.

[@ArtStoneUS]

Taking it one step further, they picked up the garbage and took it to the garbage dump which is where the garbage was burned, in an area not as close to where the houses were

[@nafisamohammed6732]

Each country should be involve in recycling materials. Recycling materials will so be a very important resource.

[@kevinstroup]

Each country needs to handle their own waste. Period. Plus, you have the bonus of not being dependent upon corrupt foreign powers that don't have your countries best interest at heart.

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

To be fair, they didn't really kill it so much as they stopped taking total responsibility for it.

[@damijanruzic9128]

use the Yugoslavian packing model from years between 1960 to 1990...reusable glass bottles, limited use of paper...many other things.

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[@McMillanScottish]

Anybody else from remember buying soda in 8-packs of 16-ounce bottles, which you would then return to the store to retrieve a deposit amount, which was built into the price? Many of the bottles looked pretty beat up and used, but nobody thought anything of it. It cost an extra nickel or so for every bottle, and you got it back when you returned the bottle. It worked. Nobody would throw away those bottles if there was even a nickel to get back. And now, we have “garbage island”.